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Key to the Piri Reis Map: Numbered English translations by Afet İnan and Leman Yolaç (1954) and a map with the numbering errors printed in Hapgood's Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (1966), via sacred-texts.com. Fringe theories: Charles Hapgood commentary on the Piri Reis map, photocopied from Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
Regarding public domain status of the translation source in Turkey: the work was published in 1935, Akçura died in 1935 †, the assistant who he says helped transcribe the text, Hasan Fehmi Turgal, died in 1939. ‡ † Akçura, Yusuf, Piri Reis Haritasi (1935), p. 34, note 2, by the book's editor.
English: Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513. Only part of the original map survives and is held at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. The map synthesizes information from many maps, including one drawn by Christopher Columbus of the Caribbean.
"The Piri Reis Map of 1513: Art and Literature in the Service of Science". Seapower, Technology, and Trade: Studies in Turkish Maritime History (Digital ed.). Istanbul: Piri Reis University. ISBN 978-9-94426-451-8.. McIntosh, Gregory C. (August 2015). "The Piri Reis Map of 1528: A Comparative Study with Other Maps of the Time". Mediterranea.
English: This map of Arabia shows the expedition of an Ottoman fleet led by Piri Reis to take Portuguese-held Muscat. The expedition begins in Suez, Egpyt, in April 1552; goes out through the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean; takes Muscat, Oman, in August 1552; unsuccessfully lays siege to Hormuz from September 1552 to October 1552; stops at the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf; and ends at ...
Fragment of the Piri Reis map by Piri Reis in 1513. The Piri Reis map is a famous world map created by 16th-century Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The surviving third of the map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy.
Piri Reis rejoined the Ottoman Navy for the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517) and presented the world map to Selim I in 1517. [7] [8] In the following decade, Piri Reis completed two versions of the Kitab-ı Bahriye and a second world map. [6] When Suleiman the Magnificent began his reign in 1520, Ottoman craftsmen offered exemplars of their ...